Tag Archives: Activity Trace

MO71 utilises the MQCNO_ACTIVITY_TRACE_DISABLED option so that while using it to view activity trace records, you are not also generating even more! This is of course, only honoured if the queue manager allows it which is controlled by the queue manager attribute ACTVCONO. So in addition, the MO71 Activity trace viewer also has some quick check boxes to hide from view all its records should they be generated.

What if you want to see the activity trace for MO71 though? For example if you want to trace the API Exerciser?

There are two ways to over-ride the use of MQCNO_ACTIVITY_TRACE_DISABLED. One is to use the following command (which applies the over-ride to all applications that have specified it).

ALTER QMGR ACTVCONO(DISABLED)

The other is to add a stanza like the following to your queue manager’s mqat.ini file. Remember if MO71 is already connected, you can make an alteration to the queue manager object to get it to pick up the new mqat.ini file or just disconnect and reconnect to the queue manager to pick it up.

Now looking at the Activity Trace window, on the “Settings” tab, uncheck “Exclude this process” so you can see records from this process ID, and also “Exclude MO71 processes” which just causes the filtering for the “Output” tab to hide any records that come from any “mqmonntp.exe”. Remember to press Apply Settings once you’ve made these and any other filtering changes.

Note: With these two check boxes, you could run one instance of MO71 to view the Activity Trace records, and a second instance of MO71 doing the activity you want to trace, for example using the API Exerciser, then you could leave “Exclude this process” checked and only uncheck “Exclude MO71 processes”.

It may also be wise to turn off any automatic operations that are being done by MO71, such as exporting objects on a scheduled time interval, which would generate a lot of activity from MO71 in the trace.

Then you’ll be able to see any API calls made by the MO71 application, for example:-

MQGem Software is pleased to announce that a new version of MO71, our GUI Administrative tool for IBM MQ, is now available.

The main features of the release are as follows:-

MO71 Activity Trace Viewer – Settings Panel

Browse, search, format and display Activity Trace information

The new Activity Trace viewer allows much easier viewing and searching of the information generated. Easily find reason codes, or filter by object names, locate applications using certain options which they shouldn’t, and so much more. More information can be read in Application Activity Trace Viewer.

Copy text from the container windows to the clipboard

Container windows are used for a number of features in MO71. The Activity Trace viewer is the newest, but they are also used for the Network View and the
Application View. It is now possible to select text in containers and press Ctrl-C to have that text copied to the clipboard

The new version can be downloaded from the MO71 Download Page. Any current licensed users of MO71 can run the new version on their existing licence. If you don’t have a licence and would like to try out MO71 then send an email to support@mqgem.com and a 1-month trial licence will be sent to you.